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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85648	The Great work of redemption deliver'd in five sermons at St. Paul's, and at the Spittle, Aprill, 1641 ...		1660 (1660)	Wing G1787A; ESTC R42330	65,630	217

to take it up again lay down my life by dying to take it up again by rising as easie to take it up as to lay it down to lay down my life as man to take it up again as God Even as he said of the same body to the Jews Destroy you this Temple I will raise it up in three dayes Destroy it then its destructive but raise it up in three dayes there 's his Godhead Thus he spake once let us put them together God and Man Man and God How prove we it The Apostle proves it Heb. 1.1 of Christ thus he was declared mightily to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead Whereupon Saint Austin Oh miraculum miraculorum This is a miracle of miracles the Sun of all Suns never the like that one dead should raise himself from the dead this could not be man but God it must needs be as the Apostle to the Colossians The Godhead dwelling in him bodily which raised himself from the dead now beloved from hence it must follow that it was impossible for him to be detained in the grave and S. Peter saith Acts 2. it was impossible for Christ to be detained in the pangs of death it is a word taken from women travailing in child when the throwes and pangs are upon her she cannot contain her burden it must go out Well said Chrysologus of this burden Concepit mortuum peperit vivum Here is a difference then between this womb and all the rest of the world conceiving dead and bringing forth alive and indeed so it must needs bee when Omnipotency is the Midwife as it was with Jonas a type of Christ swallowed up of the Whale the stomach could not digest it it must be cast out Of what use must this be to us the same power that raised him from death to life the same power will give us resurrection to life everlasting even our bodies So the Apostle Phil. 3. He will change our vile bodies and make them like unto his glorious body So much for the second point that I call it an Omnipotent truth The next is that it is also a triumphant truth there are two triumphings of Christ that we read of in Scripture and they are admirable the one is of his Passion and the other not of his but of the general Resurrection the one is an Introduction to the other of his Passion thus Col. 2. He having spoiled principalities and powers made a shew of them openly and triumphed over them on the Cross Here is his triumph he becomes a conquerour over principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly he spoiled them there 's the conquering sold them openly there 's the preparation for the triumph of the people and to look upon all as a conquerour there 's his triumph this triumph thus spokes of it hath allusion unto the triumphs of the world and especially that of the Romane State wherein there was first presented a multitude of Trumpeters sounding out the victory and resounding then came in chariots of spoils spoils of armour spoils of riches the conquerour he sits in the midst looking back unto those noble slaves that came behind their wives their children and all their hands bound about them I will passe no farther in the story enough for application Now I beseech you extend your mind as much as you can that we may behold at least some glimpse of this great victory of our Saviour Christ and of his conquest Here now where was his sight of Majesty he was now giving up the ghost upon the Crosse and behold a triumph why God and Man the Deity never forsook the Manhood no not in his death the vertue of his death was the crucifying of the Devil and all his powers And now I come to the slaves of this triumph the principalities and powers namely the greatest powers that can be conceived in creatures and who should deal with them but he that is above all power Christ our Saviour What doth he spoil them of of all their designs be they never so mischievous he spoils them of all their wiles and prevents them they can do nothing never any thing to the prejudice of the children of God regenerate never any thing that shall work to his overthrow This is that spoil and he leads them as it is here in the other Text open in view he goes not out of sight So that this point is contemplative here is no Cherubims or Seraphims Angels or Archangels but whatsoever can be seen in the world by the mortal eyes that was visibly performed by Christ Thus much for that second triumph and so it shall be in the general resurrection 1 Cor. 15. Oh death where is thy sting Oh Hell or Grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Thanks be to God that he hath given us victory in Christ our Lord. Now mark I beseech you the manifold circumstances of this victory in the day of the resurrection of the holy Saints and Martyrs What will become of the Law the Law of God it shall be cancelled no more Law here and the Law it is the strength of sin for if there were no law there were no transgression the law being taken away there is no more sin and as for sins past they are either pardoned or punished in the day of the resurrection Well then but sin it is the sting of death what becomes of death Death it is swallowed up in victory Death 's dead no more giving up of the ghost Come to the Grave Grave where is thy victory When the Trumpets sound and the Angel gives his voice arise ye dead and come unto Judgement they come out of their Graves the Graves are empty But the great enemies are Hell and the Devil Hell where 's thy victory The conquest being before as you heard concerning the passage of the souls of men the gates of Hell are shut up no ingresse nor egresse but all is shut they are all detained as the Apostle saith in the chains of darknesse and torments for ever And this is our victory Thanks be to God that hath given us victory in Christ Jesus our Lord Amen Thus have I ended the Historical point which concern'd us in the evidence of this truth that you have heard that he is risen and of the power thereof All this while we have not learned the causes of this resurrection that belongs to the third part which I said was Analogical and this hath three considerations The first is this Christ here in the Text is to be considered in the first place as the general cause of the Resurrection of the world of men The second consideration is this That he in this Text is the special cause of the resurrection of all the souls everlastingly blessed The third consideration of

suffered on the Crosse to make good our comforts he was bound to purchase our freedome And here first of all the work of the day doth challenge at our hands matter of admiration it is a duty the Heavens are called upon upon a lesse occasion Hear O ye Heavens and be astonished O earth Who is there that hath any thing of Heaven in him let him obstupescere he amazed and wonder it is a wonder in all the particulars of it First to wonder at the hainousness of that sin the nature of which was such that it could no otherwise be expiated but thus That which threw Adam out of Paradise the Angels out of Heaven Saul from his Kingdome that at this day pulls down Families and Nations and Kingdomes that makes some Nations an hissing and reproch to others pray God it doth not serve us so That which doth tumble a Kingdome into the dust pray God it do not serve us so It made the Son of God to bleed and to cry My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Which of us in the strongest temptation to any sin that is remembring the price of it could chuse but be intreated to hold his hand Consider in the strongest temptation to any sin it was the price of my Saviours bloud And secondly this serves for matter of gratulation to be thankful for Christs love that he would thus suffer and that we despair not though we find it not in our Ware-houses in our Closets in our Chambers in our Chests in our Cupboards or the like outward things Potiphar looks upon Joseph and sees all things thrive under him and therefore he loves him so Laban for the same reason loves Jacob But here is Gods love that he gave himself for us that 's the second A third Instruction is for admiration of that obligation God hath cast upon thee He that could have gloryed in thy destruction that he should glory in thy salvation what canst thou do but rejoyce But to wonder is nothing if we go no farther Therefore in the fourth place here is matter of thanksgiving which is a duty for every Ordinance Every ordinary blessing it calls for a Trophee a Pillar an Altar a Song a Sacrifice a Chronicle so did David Moses and other servants of God What thanks doth he expect for this dayes deliverance If among the Heathen he that delivers his Countrey from any potent enemies had such applauses and acclamations mille annos vivat he that slew a thousand of our enemies may he live a thousand years may his name be precious a thousand years How can we pour out our hearts before God without giving thanks for this dayes deliverance Neither is admiration or gratulation sufficient unlesse we blesse our selves in this day in the apprehension of him that was this Preserver with reference to our sins the bloud of Christ hath a vertue to bind up the bleeding soul and to make the bones that were broken to rejoice Is not this a matter of admiration gratulation and consolation therefore in the fear of God these are the thoughts that belong to this day let your contemplations be upon what he did these contemplations would preserve us from the sense of temporal calamities When Jacob saw the Ladders and the Angels ascending and descending he said Haec est porta coeli this is the gate of Heaven The gate of Heaven It is well saith one that Heaven hath a gate it is well for Gods children that there is a Preserver that their hopes are above with him whose care is to preserve things perishing here below among so many destructions from those that cry to our Jerusalem Down with it down with it even to the ground There is one above who is the Preserver who doth never keep back his mercy but when things look most desperately upon earth when the enemies hope to take them at a disadvantage and to fall upon them when there is none to deliver them then if we call upon him with David saying Remember the dayes of old and thy great mercies unto me then it is for our comfort that after a time God will have mercy upon us When the night is at the darkest the day is neerest at hand When the throws of a woman in travel are the greatest her deliverance is neerest When Moses saw the children of Israel in the greatest danger Now stand saith he and see the glory of the Lord the enemy that now threatens you shall see him no more The earth mourned Lebanon was ashamed Bashan and Carmel have all lost their fruit now will I exalt my self As if he should say mans misery that 's my opportunity When things are at the worst with Gods children and his Church then will he shew himself a Preserver The comfort of Christs Crosse that 's comfort to a soul wounded with misery Is there any of you here this day that is at his Golgotha with his strong cryes to God in the sight of his sins and the terrors of Gods wrath at the sight of Gods justice Are any such here then behold consolation that his bloud this day shed if thou dost but conceive it if there be but a true apprehension in thee that that bloud was shed for thee 't is enough for thy salvation that thy price is paid for thee by his death on the Crosse when his arms were extended both wayes as well to the thief that despised as to the good thief and in that prayer he put up upon the Crosse for the worst of his enemies for them that nailed him the worst of men Father forgive them for they know not what they do Those that nail me that crucifie me even for them I pray It is very probable that when the good thief saw Christs mercy extend so far to the worst of men he reasons thus with himself What! is there mercy for these why not for me Though a thief yet not such a wretch as these are thus to crucifie my Saviour Lord remember me when thou comest into Paradise and remember in that prayer of Christ there is forgivenesse for thee and in those arms stretched out there is a receptacle for thee in that bloud that came out of his wounds there is cure for thee rather then thou shalt dye he will dye for thee But beloved to enlarge the merits of Christ longer you will think I spread this plaister too far in the mean time not knowing whether we have any part in him or no. We must understand the Mystery of Christ as well as the History there is something to be done by way of examination to examine what title we have to this Saviour Look upon thy own sins bleed for them as well as Christ bled for thee Christ doth not actually save all For the resolution of which I cannot give you a better answer then what I told you of the Israelites concerning the Brasen Serpent that which gave them a cure gives me a capacity of this